Trump Drags Rashida Tlaib's Grandma Into His Latest Twitter Attack. Donald Trump's ad hominem attacks took a new turn on Friday when he used Rashida Tlaib's grandmother as an excuse to insult the Democratic congresswoman from Michigan. He said the only winner in the congresswoman's battle with the Israeli government is her grandmother who "doesn't have to see her now!"

Very poignant article that illustrates the current plight of Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories. The time is coming very soon where Americans that don't know will fully understand that if this nation truly believes in liberty and freedom our actions need to match our words, not betray their understanding.

When ever has an allegedly strong, vital democracy been willing to try and stifle dissent of its own policies by legally silencing opposing viewpoints and experiences? Weak authoritarian states try to shape and control hostile speech all the time under the guise of national security, when the reality is those same states know that the truth undermines the wrongs perpetrated to maintain power and control over those they oppress. Though it was almost 50 years ago, the echoes of South Africa will reverberate louder and louder until the truth will be too powerful to deny. One must be able to talk about the wrongs done in the name of the Israeli state without being accused of wanting its democratic efforts to fail. But those living under a supposed democracy have to actually be treated in a democratic manner, each and every one held responsible for their individual actions without bearing wholesale responsibility for the violent acts and intentions of others.

Standing up for the rights of the oppressed and suffering to be treated far more fairly and humanely does not make one an advocate of Israel's fall as a democracy. For most it's a charge to Israel to be the type of society that it claims, and to treat all those within its borders with decency and fairness while simultaneously protecting itself from external and internal extremist harm.

"Thank you for not politicizing what's happened to me, because I'm still a granddaughter," Tlaib told her supporters Friday in Detroit.

Oh give me a break... Tlaib herself politicized every aspect of these attention-seeking events. Like Friday night from a podium:

"Rep. Rashida Tlaib got emotional Friday following her announcement that she would not visit the West Bank to see her 90-year-old grandmother "potentially for the last time" after Israel ultimately reversed its decision to bar the congresswoman from the country.

"I should be on a plane to see her," Tlaib said, as she choked back tears..."

What a crock. pretending that she "can't go" because "oppression". I'll bet money that the Drama Queen makes the Sunday morning news rounds tomorrow, to make sure it's not politicized any further. LOL

Antisemitism www.ngo-monitor.org
In March 2013, published an article written by Nawaf al-Zaru that repeated the antisemitic blood libel that Jews use Christian blood to bake Passover matzah. After significant public criticism, MIFTAH removed the article, but attacked the blogger who exposed the article for "smearing" the organization and downplayed the centrality of the blood libel in the article.
Terrorism
In a January 2017 interview for Deutsche Welle, founder and chair of the Miftah board of directors Hanan Ashrawi claimed that Palestinian "attacks and their perpetrators" (as described by the interviewer, Tim Sebastian) "are seen by the people as resistance. And you cannot somehow adopt the language of either the international community or the occupier by describing anybody who resists as terrorist (sic)" (3:20).
Described Wafa Idrees, one of the first female Palestinian suicide bombers, as "the beginning of a string of Palestinian women dedicated to sacrificing their lives for the cause." Idrees detonated herself on January 27, 2002, killing 81 year-old Pinhas Takatli and wounding another 150 Israeli civilians. She is described as one of the "several young women" who "decided to join the ranks of the resistance movement."

Ashwari is right; attacks on oppressors are seen as resistance by the oppressed.
The blood libel thing was bad, but nothing they haven't made amends for.
Plenty of groups you're okay with have made similar gaffes.